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Maker Faire Bay Area 2019 May 17-19

Join Us Friday, Saturday & Sunday San Mateo County Event Center

Important Update

Maker Faire Bay Area will not be held this May in 2020. Numerous factors including the potential impact of coronavirus as well as the transition last summer of Maker Media to Make: Community have influenced this decision. We have looked at dates for Maker Faire Bay Area in the Fall but we won’t decide to go ahead with an event until we can evaluate the impact and implications of this situation.

We appreciate the support and participation of so many makers and attendees for fourteen years at Maker Faire Bay Area in San Mateo. We continue to see the positive impact that the maker movement is having on education, community building, and business. We are thinking of new ways that we might create connections within the community and help grow and develop the community of makers around the world.

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PROGRAM GUIDE + MAP

Browse featured presenters and makers across 8 stages and more than 500 exhibits, and a map of Maker Faire Bay Area 2019. Downloadable PDF!

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PROGRAM GUIDE + MAP

EXHIBITS + MAKERS

Check out the full lineup of exhibitors and makers coming to MFBA19!

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EXHIBITS + MAKERS

SCHEDULE: STAGES

Browse the full schedule for 8+ stages brimming with presentations, performances, and how-tos across science, art, craft and engineering.

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SCHEDULE: STAGES

The Future We Make: Explore The 2019 Highlights

New Tech

The future of 3D printing (spoiler: it’s now), AI, machine learning, open-source, digital fabrication, microcontrollers, DIY drones, the “right” to repair, and more.

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New Tech

Hands-On Workshops

Lacemaking, felting, laser cutting, soldering, light saber training, unicorns, breadboards, and more. Plus 40 advance-registration workshops for more in-depth, hands-on experiences.

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Hands-On Workshops

Art + Spectacle

Giant sculptures, kinetic art, and racing mechs: meet some of the fantastic (and fantastical) works coming to Maker Faire Bay Area this year.

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Art + Spectacle

Make: Space

From projects that bring the cosmos to the classroom, to startups and venerable players pursuing innovative and beneficial commercial endeavors, the space community has new ventures happening on all sides.

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Make: Space

Climate Protection

Solving the world’s largest problem takes agile and open minds, prowess and fluency in technology, and interdisciplinary thinking. Climate protection is on the mind and in the hands of makers at Maker Faire Bay Area 2019.

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Climate Protection

Cosplay Contest

Makers! Cosplayers! Show off your masks, your wands, your headgear, your swords, your arsenal, and your amazing accessories! Enjoy an appreciative audience and community of makers with a fantastic selection of prop makers and expert judges at Maker Faire Bay Area.

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Cosplay Contest

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Our Featured Presenters: Makers on the Frontiers of Thinking and Doing

Melodie Yashar

Adam Savage

Saul Griffith

Brent Bushnell

Sophy Wong

Graham Hawkes

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Check out hundreds of hands-on and interactive exhibits ● Explore 8 stages brimming with presentations, performances and how-tos across science, art, craft and engineering ● See Adam Savage’s inspiring “Sunday Sermon” ● Try your hand at circuitry, lace making, and light saber training ● Get up close to the newest Maker tech tools & platforms ● Hone your drone operator chops with the Museum of Future Sports ● Explore mobile architecture in the Tiny Home Zone ● Witness physical feats of flex and power on the Dance Battle stage ● Shop for handmade and hard-to-find crafts at the SFBazaar ● Big art! Droids! Robots! Racecars! Drones! Fire! ● Glimpse the future and get inspired at Maker Faire!

 

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Meet the 2019 Makers

Maria del Camino

Maria del Camino began with the vestige of a 1959 El Camino and the unfulfilled promise of a flying car. It is an electric vehicle that is mounted to a highly modified hydraulic excavator that may be operated manually or remotely via smart phone.

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Maria del Camino

Scared Little Boy

What happens when a boy doesn't learn to process his anger, fear, and sadness? What if he has the nuclear codes? Scared Little Boy is a laser-cut LED artwork examining childhood innocence, mutual destruction, and the possibility of regeneration.

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Scared Little Boy

Navajo Technical University Makers

Demonstration of how Navajo cultural practices and perspectives help to better understand the benefits of Sustainable Energy. The harnessing of the Sun and Wind to power our homes in a nondestructive way.

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Navajo Technical University Makers

Young Makers

What has our Young Maker Community been making? Young Makers work independently on projects and must apply to get space to share what they've made at the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth. Get inspired to start making, and show your best next year!

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Young Makers

Mechatronics Interactive Experience

Student-created exhibits demonstrate concepts of engineering, art, science and physics. All of the exhibits are interactive, inviting the user to manipulate the device to delight and inspire learning.

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Mechatronics Interactive Experience

Giant Soap Bubbles

The Maker Faire bubble exhibit: entertaining with and teaching about bubbles for years--a Maker Faire classic exhibit. See giant bubbles. Make your bubble wand for free. Learn to use it. in 2019, see bubbles you have never seen before ...

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Giant Soap Bubbles

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